alt Hacker NewsThank you. Every time I see a "Why can't we just go back to simpler days" comment it takes everything in me not to reply "No one is stopping you".
The idea that complexity arose out of nowhere and not because the web is doing things we couldn't have even imagined 10 years ago has always been wild to me.
Complexity mostly rose out of necessity, but the problem is it keeps being applied where it isn’t needed. Most projects don’t need Kafka, or Elastic, or Redis, or GraphQL, etc.
My main complaint is that by and large, the people who are applying these technologies heavy-handedly are doing so because they either think it’s needed, or because they don’t understand that simpler tools exist that could solve their problem.